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Bluebear is the way Max pronounces blueberries.

A view from the farm

lunch in the “new town”

 mommy caught a cute one!

pretty much the best blueberry pie i’ve ever made

first day of school at home

little max size door

Big things happening these last few days. First off we had a BLAST this weekend. Took a little day trip to the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi. It was about an hour and a half drive. Our first stop was the Rush River Produce farm, where we picked blueberries on this amazingly beautiful farm. It was admist rolling hills and nothing but other farms, took some dirt roads to get to it.  I wasn’t sure if we would be able to logisitically pick blueberries with a toddler, but oh boy did this boy hold his own! Once he realized that he could get them off the bushes like Mommy and Daddy were, and not take them out of our basket, he was OFF! I re-directed him to only eat the blue ones and not the ones on the ground (which he mostly obeyed). He was so freaking cute you could cry! They had a Little Tikes play thing which we called the playground, which he went back to a couple of times and then could get re-directed to go back to the blueberries. Next was the “new town,” a teenie little town similar to an Adirondack town, we had a great brunch and bought a little pie to-go before heading off to a little sandy beach the next town down, where Max and I went swimming, the water was a little gross for my liking and there was no way I was going under, but Max loved it - ”the beach” and the “mississippi river.” I don’t feel like phonetically spelling all of Max’s words, his language comprehension and his ability to process thoughts and express those thoughts is really incredible, he seems so mature!

I’ll add the pictures in the next couple of days as I will have a little time, for Max started SCHOOL today! Well, daycare. And at the end of the day, I think he really enjoyed it. It didn’t help though that he was a big crab when he woke up today.  He cried and sobbed while we were there getting settled. I forgot his soymilk, sunscreen and diaper cream, so ran back to get those and when i checked back in, (through the one way glass) he was sitting with one of the teachers, Ms Megan and doing that “shoulder shake and deep breathing” after you have cried very hard and are trying to settle yourself back down.  It was all very adorable and there are so many more thoughts to get down, but I wanted to get the weekend addressed first and then I can talk more about school. For now, I’ll get this stuff out and then get some pictures updated soon.

:)

Scroll down for the last couple of entries, I break them up so i dont lose the data.max and jelly helping mom make pancakes

my good little guy, letting me clip his nails, oh and i regrettfully, but too late now, cut of his curls when i was trying to just ‘clean up’ the skiddly little hairs that were too long.

curl free, and playing with the new sprinkler out back.

asleep at the wheel, first nap on the road.

4th of July, a good capture of his little itchy nose habit.

first family ride, down our alley, house on the right.

615 8th Street

and of course his scooter’s new home out back.

ok, what should my priority be for this blog, uploading pics or getting some text done… i’m just going to shoot from the hip and blast out some copy….

we are settled, i love it here (but ask me again in January). Im so at peace, getting the place settled with final touches. slowly making new friends and mom friends that seem to jive with my way of life.

we have a new pediatrician, ironically at the same clinic that i will be working. it was a get aqauainted visit and she came recommended from the family across the street. max did get a hep A vaccination and is still not himself  (from last thur) had a temp of 103 friday into saturday morning. but we’re slowly getting back on track. Dr Barton whom we/I love also gave us her impression of daycare facilities in the city/town. the one that she highly recommended though doesnt have the flexibility that another one near us has as far as scheduling his days there, since i dont really know when i’ll be working… but she still recommended the one we are on the fence about…. my head is realing from this little tid-bit, so i’ll leave it at this and address it in another post.

we had a welcoming reception for the neuro dept tonight and had a 14yo babysitter who was great, even tid-ied up the counters and got max down without a hitch, she checked on him a couple of times as she felt she needed to. she is the daughter of eric’s director (how cute and they actually used to own and live in this house 10 years ago. Max’s room was Angel’s room, so it was really special for her to come here and be in the house again, she remembers it even though she was 4.5 when they moved

ok. i’ll do a picture post now, before i get timed-out.